The USA shot itself a long time ago. The status quo was a "managed decline" as the rest of the world continues to enrich itself at the expense of the American people.
The new tariffs are there for negotiation leverage. There will be pain in the process of unwinding decades worth of terrible trade policy with hostile nations, but the bandage needed to be ripped off before these government and foreign parasites manage to completely collapse the US economy.
So in the short term, yes, it's probably going to be tough. But it was already going to be tough because the entire economy is fake and gay and has been propped up with fake and gay fiat currency and debt bubbles.
In the long term, however, which is what anyone who isn't a fucking moron should be focusing on, they will probably be massively beneficial to the US.
During WWII, as a matter of fact. We had agreements with the Continental powers (Bretton Woods) for how the post WWII economy would work (spoiler alert, kinda like NAFTA 50 years early). No one in Europe honored their end of that agreement.
After WWII, we set up the Marshall Plan. We threw money at Europe (except England, because fuck them, amirite?) like drunken sailors in a whorehouse. A lot of this money kept people from starving (by making their agriculture as effective as American ag was) or from turning Communist (by propping up their industry and keeping people at work instead of rioting).
Then there was NATO. U.S. protects the western European powers, on the condition that every member contributes at least 2% of their GDP to their defense budget. Guess what? They didn't.
So, for 80 years, the U.S. has been fixing everyone's economy, either for free, or for very low cost, and in return... we've been told to spend more for NATO, SEATO, and just suck it up about the Chicken Tax, Yankee.
Europe, known for raw prosperity and definitely not also being in a managed decline led by the same people doing it to the US.
it is terrifying how quickly you people can be brought to hate your brothers because a wall-kisser said so. alternatively, it is terrifying how it seems that 75% of this site is a fed operation rather than natural traffic.
The USA shot itself a long time ago. The status quo was a "managed decline" as the rest of the world continues to enrich itself at the expense of the American people.
The new tariffs are there for negotiation leverage. There will be pain in the process of unwinding decades worth of terrible trade policy with hostile nations, but the bandage needed to be ripped off before these government and foreign parasites manage to completely collapse the US economy.
So in the short term, yes, it's probably going to be tough. But it was already going to be tough because the entire economy is fake and gay and has been propped up with fake and gay fiat currency and debt bubbles.
In the long term, however, which is what anyone who isn't a fucking moron should be focusing on, they will probably be massively beneficial to the US.
During WWII, as a matter of fact. We had agreements with the Continental powers (Bretton Woods) for how the post WWII economy would work (spoiler alert, kinda like NAFTA 50 years early). No one in Europe honored their end of that agreement.
After WWII, we set up the Marshall Plan. We threw money at Europe (except England, because fuck them, amirite?) like drunken sailors in a whorehouse. A lot of this money kept people from starving (by making their agriculture as effective as American ag was) or from turning Communist (by propping up their industry and keeping people at work instead of rioting).
Then there was NATO. U.S. protects the western European powers, on the condition that every member contributes at least 2% of their GDP to their defense budget. Guess what? They didn't.
So, for 80 years, the U.S. has been fixing everyone's economy, either for free, or for very low cost, and in return... we've been told to spend more for NATO, SEATO, and just suck it up about the Chicken Tax, Yankee.
Europe, known for raw prosperity and definitely not also being in a managed decline led by the same people doing it to the US.
it is terrifying how quickly you people can be brought to hate your brothers because a wall-kisser said so. alternatively, it is terrifying how it seems that 75% of this site is a fed operation rather than natural traffic.